Twitter wound up creating basically the same #RotEconomy that makes the Techbros tick. They only care about making the stock price go up, no matter what. It's striking just how similar that is to clout chasing on social media, because stock prices are driven more by perception than actual results.

The #RotEconomy has thoroughly devoured Micro$oft. I used to think that they would end up as a big, boring, but profitable company like IBM or SAP, but now it looks like they want to speedrun going down in flames powered by AI shite.

Christopher Hitchens believed religion ruins everything. #AI is jealous, it would seem. Here's the latest example of what @edzitron.com calls the #RotEconomy:
#Amazon #CustomerService

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the wors...

Come see Cory Doctorow and @edzitron.com talk about #Enshittification and the #RotEconomy with @clarionwest.bsky.social on Oct. 22nd! In person in Seattle or free online. secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c...

#authortalk #scifi #seattlelibrary

The pricing for your Google Workspace Business Standard subscription will change beginning September 2, 2025 Dear Google Workspace administrator, We’re writing to inform you of the price change that will go into effect for your Google Workspace Business Standard subscription on or after September 2, 2025. The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value, as well as the many new features we have introduced and are launching to Google Workspace editions. Learn more. Please visit the Admin console Billing page to review your new subscription price. Learn more about billing. We’re here to help If you have any questions, visit the Google Workspace Admin Help Center. You can also contact Google Workspace support if you require assistance. Thank you for choosing Google Workspace. We value and appreciate your business. Sincerely, The Google Workspace Team

“The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value…”

We all know this is bullshit, but they’re so desperate for it to be true, that they sent this email multiple times, including a little after midnight on the day it takes effect.

#RotEconomy #BetterOffline #AISlop

youtu.be/mRWLQGMGY80
#aibubble #roteconomy #techfail #enshittification

#RotEconomy

Yet another reason for me to avoid streaming services... 🤮

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to own my music. That way it can't just disappear one day. The artist gets more money. And I don't have to listen to intrusive ads.

#AIslop #roteconomy #AItrash #streaming #Spotify

The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 3 Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 13/06/2025 · 35m

Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.

Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offlin...

#Podcast #Technology #RotEconomy #AI

I'm running out of bullseyes to award Ed

#aifraud #techrot #roteconomy

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI for content creation It will go "AI-first" moving forward.

I know you're attached to that #Duolingo streak, but the owl has gone to the dark side. Just say "no" to AI.

#justsayno #ai #roteconomy @duolingoverde.bsky.social #labor @engadget.bsky.social

www.engadget.com/ai/duolingo-...

Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Did you hear about Cory Doctorow's posit on the #Enshitification of internet/tech? He talks of ways to combat it. Another term is The #RotEconomy from Ed Zitron

The key question is simple:

What to do now?

#roteconomy #brainrot #enshittification #rot

Personally, I don’t see much reason to respect anyone in Big Business or neoliberal politics.

I specifically say that people like David Zaslav or Bill Gates should be called fascists. Any CEO paying fealty to Trump is a fascist. Any CEO reducing the quality of life via the #RotEconomy is a fascist.

OH "DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules."

#rotEconomy

Remember when they kept saying AI was going to do the boring stuff so you had time for creative activities?

Funny how all the conpanies pursue are models that do the "fun" stuff and there is still no AI tool to do my ironing.

#rotEconomy

@edzitron.com WAS RIGHT... about DC metal and the batman who laughs!

(also the AI and rot economy stuff)

But yeah the batman who laughs is garbage

#betteroffline #roteconomy #dc #comicbooks #dcmetal #edzitron #AIsucks #barman #thebatmanwholaughs

Meanwhile my 2011 mac mini still runs perfectly. Slow, but none of the software that hasn’t been updated in 8 years is buggy. It’s either on purpose or the skill level of devs dropped hard. I bet it’s the former. #roteconomy

What else can you do with Slopbook nowadays?
#roteconomy

Everytime you open Facebook, there's some kind of tabloid style fake news page on top of the feed. You don't follow this page and it's not even an ad. So you block it and yet there's a new identical one everytime you reload. Facebook slop is even worse than imagined! #roteconomy @edzitron.com

I'm fortunate to work with some really inspiring and fast-learning undergrads, but this is still depressing. It's not the students' fault. #roteconomy

This video captured many of the feelings I've been having lately, and the note about "context collapse" was a lightbulb. #roteconomy

Bluesky is such a nothing platform. It's the Weimar era of future enshittification. I'll keep syndicating for a while, but I can't fathom what it adds to a person's life. #Bluesky #socialmediasucks #corporatepabalum #enshittification #roteconomy

Everyone now sees the rot economy—and we’re beginning to understand what’s behind it <p>Again, things I’ve been pointing out for over a decade—heck, even over two decades, if you consider early concerns I had over Yahoo!—are now mainstream thought.</p> <p class="para"><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/">Ed Zitron’s latest newsletter</a> begins: </p> <blockquote><p>A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world—watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/r/6e7cd07d?m=5a4323f6-9413-4762-ba64-cdcc59ebfab6">Rot Economy</a> seemingly tarnishes every corner of our digital lives. My core frustration isn’t just how <em>shitty</em> things have gotten, but how said shittiness has become so profitable for so many companies.</p></blockquote> <p class="para">Ed talks about the terrible software and websites that we now live with: </p> <blockquote><p>product decisions are now driven, in many cases, by companies trying to make you do something rather than do something for you</p></blockquote> <p>and:</p> <blockquote><p>We live in a constant state of digital micro-aggressions, and as I wrote last year, it’s <em>everywhere</em></p></blockquote> <p class="para">And like me, Ed has to defend himself by saying he doesn’t hate tech, but he knows that it could be, and could have been, so much better.</p> <p class="para">Like me, he remembers the days of actual progress brought about by technology, not tech that attempts to milk users at every turn.</p> <p class="para">Head over to his newsletter, <em><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter">Where’s Your Ed at</a></em>. I’m relieved that there are others who see what I’ve been seeing for a long, long time. I wonder if those who criticized me for it, gaslighting me by saying that no one else experienced what I so frequently observed, now accept the truth, or do they still love <a href="https://lucire.biz/product/nineteen-eighty-four/">Big Brother</a>? Or have they simply conveniently forgotten their subservience?<br/>  <br/> What’s the bigger picture here? Read <a href="https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america">‘The plot against America’ by Mike Brock in <em>Notes from the Circus</em></a>. It might not be that hard to draw parallels between certain things happening in the US and 1930s Germany, but the forces have been at play for a long time, and those forces differ. Then tell me that a lot of the people dismantling democratic systems aren’t wedded to some form of this techno-determinism. Brock labels it <em>epistemic authoritarianism</em>. 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In my blog
Everyone now sees the rot economy—and we're beginning to understand what's behind it

jackyan.com/blog/2025/02/everyone-no... #enshittification #RotEconomy #BigTech #technodeterminism

Neon pink text "What We're Fighting For" on duotone pink blue flower on dark blue background with hands typing on laptop, two laptops & hands with mobile phone.

💻 What We're Fighting For
by Ed Zitron @edzitron.com

#RotEconomy #DeterioratingProducts

www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fi...

I realize I'm shouting into the void here, but the enshittification continues unperturbed.

Disney+'s updated Terms & Conditions includes this.

Call me naive, but shouldn't they change the name of the plan to "mostly ad-free" or just "fuck you, consumer!"?

#enshittification #roteconomy

Big title "Deep Impact" accompanied by small text "Edward Zitron" with illustration of Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "The Emperor's New Clothes" at the Adelphi Theatre, 54th Street, east of 7th Ave by Charlotte Chorpenning featuring an emperor with underwear surrounded by two men, one kneeling on the floor with sewing thread and the other woth scissors and mirror in hand reflecting the face of the Emperor.

💰 Deep Impact
by Edward Zitron @edzitron.com
In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos.
#AI #RotEconomy #China #DeepSeek

www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/